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UNDER A DIFFERENT LIGHT

New Moon in Leo, a partial solar eclipse, the last of 2018 season, 3 in only 2 months, hard aspects with retrograde planets, asteroids and fixed stars pulling… with such a complex picture in the skies it’s easy to understand why so many people is feeling distressed, unsettled or confused.

There’s a lot of energy out there and messages that are reaching us, not only under this moon but in the last few months. The way we perceive ourselves and the world will be different under this particular “light” and will determine a lot of things in terms of change and how we cope with it.

This Leo Moon wants us to start over and to be self-confident, so as the light of the eclipse illuminates our flaws and might stir up things, intuition and clarity will empower us to bring closure to whatever is left and start a new chapter, even a new book. The conjunction with Mercury retrograde can complicate our decisions but we can use this as an invitation to slow down and look within instead of reacting. Asteroid Pallas, also close to the Moon reinforces this use of our strategic intelligence, helping us to cultivate a balanced mix of courage and patience to tap into our truth before acting.

Beware of Jupiter square aspect to the eclipse which can make you overconfident, overindulgent and prone to run risks: We need to take care of how we express and ¡focus!: Respect, moderation, extra attention and discipline are key to succeed and skip losses and mistakes.

A quincunx with Pluto reminds us the last New Moon sense of crisis related to our need of control or power (over our or others’ lives). If we’re feeling stuck we might be being stubborn. Watch out! Love and compassion can turn this particular challenge into a very transformative self-improvement exercise.

A softer influence of Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus advises us to be patient, to rest, to be honest and loyal and to restrain for the sake of long term prosperity.

We can use the eclipse as a lantern: Light can illuminate our way or blind us and it is our work, now more than ever to observe, decide and make a difference.

JUGGLING ACT

How good are we at juggling? Have you ever tried? Do you know what it takes? Peripheral vision, steadiness, patience and measure, detachment from results and relentless trust in our ability to grow and succeed. The same set of skills will be the key to overcome the heavy effects of the longest lunar eclipse of the century.

If the last New Moon carried a subconscious fear of disaster that might feel like happening right now and at least for the next couple of weeks, the idealist Full Moon in Aquarius will have to confront reality:

Conjunct to a retrograde Mars and the South Node this moon is highly emotional and impatient. Frustration and anger about situations that feel like repeating themselves endlessly (and they might be, to bring awareness about whatever needs resolution and change in our lives) will be difficult to hold. Patience and calm are on call, and if we cannot find them, we’d better find a safe outlet for that burning energy.

The Sun, Moon and Mars draw a harsh T square aspect with Uranus that carries irritation, outbursts, overreaction, temper tantrums, tendency to rebel from any authority, mood swings, impulsiveness… Together with Mercury retrograde it brings angry words, aggressive thoughts and makes people unreliable and provocative.

Some fixed stars add instability, peculiar events and unexpected win and lose. They can be a helping hand through self-sacrifice, though, but for that we need to be consciously aware and compromise.

A nicer but mild aspect to Saturn in Capricorn wants us to be focused and disciplined to overcome all the stress and confusion we might be into.

Can we juggle this much? We can expect events to be unpredictable, others unreliable and not feeling in the mood for any of that. As usual, the hardest conditions are just our biggest opportunities; a call for attention from the universe for us to grow, to mature, to consciously accept the challenge and evolve.

Aquarius asks us to consider a bigger picture, to expand our view and learn to use our senses differently moving from a contracted tunnel vision to a broad peripheral one with no boundaries or separation.

Earthy Taurus asks us to listen and trust our bodies to pacify Uranus tough situation. If we manage not to be too distracted by the overall disruptions, we might discover our lacks, patterns to break and new ways to go with a pristine clarity. However, it is advisable to hold any urge to start dramatic changes or communicate our plans to others while Mercury and Mars are so uncomfortable and wait until mid-August or early September, using the time to purge and release whatever can block our new long term plans

As juggler apprentices, we try, observe, practice, take breaks. Let’s be humorous about the fact that things might not work out at first. Let’s be patient and faithful for we won’t get immediate gratification these days while measured self-sacrifice will be rewarded in the end… Don’t give up and let’s start our best Eclipse juggling act!!

PREPARING THE GROUND

A partial solar eclipse tomorrow (the first of three over the Summer) with the New Moon in Cancer and the Sun in Capricorn announces and sets the foundations for a quite transformative cycle starting next November until 2020.

Powerful energies are on display to help us evolve, to make long term changes and physically manifest the shifts that have been sizzling inside us for a while already. It might feel shaky and uncomfortable but an earthy helping hand will also be there for us:

Past events, control issues or unattended needs related to Cancer matters such as family, foundations, home, safety, our support network and system can come bite us during these days as a result of the watery and volatile Moon vibe partially covering the Sun. The effects of an eclipse last longer than a regular New Moon and this one is connected to other series of eclipses in the same axe from 2009-2011 (In July 2011 also opposing Pluto, just like tomorrow). What were we doing back then?

The eclipse opposes Pluto, the destroyer and transformative planet and conjuncts Castor a twin fixed star, artistry and refined, but with a dark brother and a buried subconscious fear of disaster that often drives it to neurotic distress and overreaction. As the Hades Moon darkens the Sun boosting our intuition and awareness, the bipolar energy of Castor walks us through the fine line between genius and madness.

At this point disruptive events can happen to force us face the issues we need to deal with and we managed to neglect and bury for too long. There’s a hidden gift behind rejection and crisis if we acknowledge them as an invitation to surrender, observe and contain our reactions to dismantle our old patterns. Fated situations and repetitive themes are nothing but reminders of controlling habits to remove.

Weed, aerate, plough and loosen the soil and get ready to cultivate your land, your Self.

Besides, there are five retrograde planets; Pluto and Chirón (in Aries, making our wounds itchy) among them. This can be good for introspection and rest but tough for external affairs and quick fixes. Signs could be hard to interpret on top of the unstable and emotional environment. Some land needs to rest in between groundwork stages… we’ll need to be patient.

So far it sounds a bit discouraging, but earth signs allied in a Grand Trine release drama grounding us, allowing us to be open, positive, practical and excited about the possibility of new ways of doing old things, of a poised and nurturing transformation that somehow we can feel coming. Saturn in Capricorn, Venus and Ceres in Virgo and Uranus in Taurus are the miracle workers, the motherly supporters, the committed farmers who will complete the task so the land (and the Self) is ready to grow.

DEMOLISHING RESTRICTIONS

This Capricorn Full Moon carries a heavy energy with it and it’s quite structured, grounded, determined and even ambitious. A conjunction to Saturn, ruler of Capricorn, and in retrograde motion just intensifies this effect. It’s like a rock that can become a solid foundation or a painful burden

The Sun in Cancer is nurturing and emotional: The turmoil is served…

Mars getting retrograde in Aquarius taps into silenced and unresolved resentment. Buried Frustration threatens to surface and we can tell, we can feel under pressure. Life might be testing us with challenging situations that we might perceive even worse than they are… Inadequacy, tiredness, loneliness or rage, are in the end masks for our fears.

Conflict is a gift if we will and work to use it as the chance for a deep, long term cleanse and restructure, of our people, family ties (blood or not), habits and more. So instead of despair out of unsettling situations we’d better stop and gather a supportive family getting rid of pretenders. Instead of holding on to fear we’d better confront it with courage, softness, and open hearts. Let’s trust our intuition and allow Uranus in a trine with the Moon to help us attract that conscious change.

It won’t be the easiest Full Moon for many but it will be an outstanding chance to demolish restrictions that stop us from moving forward and evolve. Transformative processes are often painful but it never lasts once you surpass the threshold and surrender.

Let’s dare to expose our vulnerabilities, to admit them with love and take care of them with responsibility and the support of those we know are our real tribe. It takes one big sight and a determined step forward: Let’s go for it!

OF BONDS AND KNOTS

The New Moon in Gemini comes surrounded by many fortunate major stars bearers of wealth and favouring business. Let’s get ready for some frenzy activity and new plans without losing sight a few very interesting events:

Mars, conjunct with the South Node in Aquarius unearths emotional responses that might feel like knots in our guts. Karmic ties we might never understand with the mind so we’d better beware of resistance and avoidance and find the courage to welcome the feeling deep into our body, embrace our fears and give them love without prejudice to let them disentangle, dissolve and disappear. Chiron in Aries will make our wounds itch: Painful though necessary to identify what needs to heal and untie the knots with habits from the past. Body awareness, creativity, trust and love are all we need. And patience, as these Mars conjunctions will repeat until September.

Let’s not forget that Uranus in Taurus (since May 15 until 2026) asks for a change from antagonism and battle to union and acceptance, and used as we are to divide and react, it takes an attentive and open attitude to make it possible.

The New Moon in Gemini likes thinking and communication. Mercury, ruler of Gemini, in Cancer, can help us to express feelings and tenderness in the outside and also within, acknowledging our need love and our beauty and talking to our body to allow us to feel, to physically perceive what we already know with the mind…

May the surrounding energies assist and support us in undoing old rusty knots that block us and sow the seeds to solid and nurturing new bonds under the New Moon. May them grow with health, may we let them.

EXPLORERS

Can you picture yourself like a Marco Polo or maybe an astronaut? To be a great explorer we need to be curious about what’s beyond our comfort zone and have a certain dose of faith and intuition yet also courage, will and practical thinking to set things in motion.

Greatest discoverers were running uncertain risks with passion and a sense of adventure that would lead them to the most amazing findings or to really unwanted situations.

The energy of the Gemini Full Moon teamed up with fixed star Antares and opposing the Sun and fixed star Aldebaran, gives us a chance to expand the frame and adventurously travel to new unknown places (within, around or both)

It won’t be easy to be patient and self-disciplined under this light and some other less influential aspects, but our ability to detach from our feelings, to express them, and to find a poised balance between being open to possibilities yet vigilant to discern misinformation or empty promises from rushed out spirits might be the clue to succeed.

Whatever happens there’s always something to discover and learn from, so be curious, be brave, be cautious and enjoy the quest.

THE SEED OF THE EARNEST

The earthy sign of Taurus welcomes rebellious Uranus for seven years on the same day it’s hosting May’s New Moon. Stability, easiness, beauty… Venus, ruler of Taurus wants to come back to Nature, to relieve stress and re-establish the long term lost balance between mind and body, reason and intuition, yin and yang… both individually and collectively.

The Moon trines Pluto in Capricorn bringing transformative depth to our choices of change and creative skills to observe and explore our shadows. Beware though of Uranus squaring Mars in the same sign, as it can be shaky and rush ourselves up in the decision-taking process.

The presence of fixed stars Algol and Capulus are far from auspicious according to traditional readings except for those who are earnest and live honouring their truth, whose words and feelings back up their actions. Energy is not good or bad, but if powerful it can bring great benefit or quitethe opposite. In the end, it’s always up to us.

Those who already live in awareness are tuned and ready for the upcoming shift. The seed is planted and the soil fertile under Taurus nurturing energy. Jupiter in trine with Neptune encouraging selflessness is just another sign in the same direction: The necessary holistic alignment of body, mind and spirit to accept reality and its constant changes with joy and bring to our lives what we love, what matches our real nature.

Let’s welcome Uranus in the gardens of Venus: working on awareness by listening to our bodies and let our guts, our hearts and minds agree before acting. Good things take time.

May the New Moon open a beautiful seven years cycle. It’ll sure be exciting.